Access to data on Bubble through native Android App

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Hi,

I’m relatively new to Bubble and trying to access the data in my bubble database through an
Android app.
The Android app is developed native using Android Studios.
What I wanna do is this:
Enter username and password into my app, check if the user exists and the entered password is correct. If yes, forward to bubble.

What I have until now: My Website (dev, not live!), few users in the database and my Android App.

What I know need is: How can I connect my Android app with the database?
Do I need to generate the API? How to work with JSON Web Token?

Until now, I always accessed to web data through:
String url = “some url”;

But this time, it doesn’t work.
Maybe this is a silly question, but I would be really happy if someone could help me.
And I have to stay in development mode.

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I recommend you an hybrid native app using a webviewer.

If you do a good mobile design will look very good.

Generally i dont recommend to anyone try to build a full native app until Bubble bring us a way to handle this.

Its on their roadmap, so maybe soon :slight_smile:

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While I’ve never done it, I heard that bubble workflows can transfer to Dropsource to create a nice native app environment.

I’d look into that rather than just wrapping the page.

DM

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So, thank you for your fast reply.
But I have to stay native Android, since I have to access the data from an already existing app.
Isn’t there a way to only read data from bubble?

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Yeah, your Bubble can expose a REST API that lets you grab data from it and populate the mobile app. There’s a decent amount of content in the documentation about the API, have you checked there?

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Thanks a lot @andrewgassen! I didn’t check the manual only the docs.
But I still have open questions about creating the endpoint.

I want the user to log in his username and password and then get his phone number etc. back.
I tried to define a checkuser workflow (see screenshots).
So, I want to post the username within the request (already done) and retrieve the phone number of this user.

How can I define the API workflow?

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To connect your Android app to the Bubble database:

  1. Enable API in Bubble:
  • Go to your Bubble app’s settings and enable the Data API and Workflow API.
  • Create an API key for security.
  1. Create a Bubble Endpoint:
  • Set up a new API Workflow to check the username and password (e.g., check_user endpoint).
  1. Send Request from Android App:
  • Use libraries like Retrofit or Volley to send a POST request to the Bubble API with the username and password.
  1. JWT Authentication:
  • After login, Bubble can generate a JWT token which your Android app will use for future requests.
  1. Parse JSON Response:
  • Handle the response (e.g., check if the login is successful) and store the JWT token for future use.